Altium help....Altium Users & experts HELP

[kazzarian]

I am completely new to Altium infact to PCB Designing.

I have very little experience in Protel 99SE.

Have designed boards in Protel. But i never used the concept of schematics in Protel, i directly placed footprints on the PCB, routed manually and that's it.


Now that i am using Altium, i discovered that i am unable to route manually like i did in Protel without Schematics.

I just wanted to ask, is it possible to route in Altium without anything else like schematics and stuff.......

can i do it just like i did in Protel99SE

 

[loosemoose]

you should be able to do it. instead of using the place route you need to use place track command, and turn off the on-line drc..
after you are done with the board you can create a netlist from what you have created.

 

[kazzarian]

Where is the Place Track command located, i can't find it..........also tell me how do i turn off the DRC..........a step-by-step guide would be highly appreciated

 

[mrflibble]

step 1: google
step 2: youtube tutorials
step 3: altium wiki
step 4: profit!

You can even combine these steps like so: https://www.google.com/search?q=altium+wiki+drc

 

[loosemoose]

use the short cut keys "P", "L" or "P", "T". You can turn off the DRC under the preferences.
it's under PCB Editor >> General. First option is Online DRC.

For this I do not think there is a tutorial. see if you can find something on their site : https://www.altium.com/training/en/training_home.cfm